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The Mighty 7th Needs Your Help—How Many Bonds Will You Buy To Back The Attack? WEATHER North Carolina — Mostly cloudy and not quite so warm, scattered showers, thunderstorms today in east and central portions tonight, cooler west portion tonight. Ghe« Hhelhy Baily Stett CLEVELAND COUNTY’S NEWSPAPER SINCE 1894 TELEPHONES 1100 - State Theater Today - “And The Angels Sing” DOROTHY LAMOUR FRED MacMURRAY VOL. XLIII—118 ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SHELBY, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945 ■TELEMAT PICTURES SINGLE COPIES—6c GREAT FIRES SET IN NAGOYA BY SUPERFORTS More Than Million Fire Bombs Dropped By 500 B-29's TOKYO AREA STRAFED Bv James Lindslev GUAM, May 17.—(/P)—A great fleet of more than 500 Superfortre.sses kindled huge new conflagrations today in Nagoya, war vital Japanese aircraft and arsenal center still in flames from Monday’s incendiary raid. The B-29s struck shortly after midnight, dropping more than a million fire bombs from medium altitude by the light of flares and fires started in Monday's 500 plane strike. Japanese broadcasts reported that 12 hours later 40 fighters from Iwo Jima strafed the Fuji sawa district on the southern out skirts of Metropolitan Tokyo. Today’s B-29s dropped more than 3,500 tons of fire bombs on a 16-sqnare-mile target area centered on the j section adjoining Nagoya's in ner harbor and estuary docks. Heavy fires were left roaring along the waterfront, reported Lt. George Walker, Superfort naviga tor from Boston. Mass. “I don’| believe there’s much left of the city,” third largest in Japan, added Sgt. Ray Karpowicz, radioman from Madison, HI., who has been on 14 Nagoya raids. Returning crewmen reported an ti-aircraft fire was meager and the few interceptor planes were not anxious to fight. There was no report of any B-29s lost. JAP CLAIM A Japanese Imperial communi que claimed nine B-29s were shot down, almost identical with its story after Monday’s raid in which two Superforts were destroyed. The enemy communique said the Atsu la shrine was bombed, but made no mention of industrial damage. ”We were over the target early, but even then large fires were burning in the southern part of the city," reported Lt. W. C. Loeh ner, Milwaukee, Wis., instrument specialist. ''We started a few dan dy blazes ourselves. By the time we left Nagoya, smoke was billow g«e GREAT Page 2 WRAY’S MEDALS TOHISMOTHER GASTONIA, May 17—Mrs. Oeland B. Wray of 807 South Chester street, Gastonia, has been present ed the Bronze Oak Leaf clusters to the Silver Star and the Bronze Star awarded posthumously to her son, First Lieut. Edmund L. Wray, formerly of Charlotte. Lieutenant Wray, a native of Gastonia, was connected with the Hotel Charlotte before entering service, and also had been con nected with the Hotel Charles at Shelby. He entered service as a member of the Charlotte company of the Natiohal Guard, which was federalized and ordered to duty in September, 1940. Presentation of the awards to Mrs. Wray was made by Colonel Wilbur J. Fox of Camp Croft, S. C. , in an informal ceremony at Mrs. Wray's home here. The awards, presented posthu mously to Mrs. Wray on behalf of her son, who was killed in action, were for “gallantry in action against the enemy, exceptional initiative and bravery and superior leadership” during engagements from July 11 to July 16, 1944, and on August 10 and 11, 1944. German Prisoners Being Used To Help Allies Against Japs PARIS, May 17. — (/Py— German manpower and technical skill al ready have been put to work by the • Allies helping to win the war against Japan. This is one of the top priority jobs for the millions of prisoners in Allied hands. As fast as they can be screened they are being used in every possible way to speed the gigantic task of redeploying Amer ican forces and equipment for the cleanup in the Pacific. Skilled German prisoners are be ing used to recondition equipment to be shipped to the Par East. Others by the thousands axe toll A ing under the eyes of doughboy guards on every kind of job from crating supplies to repairing roads over which men and material will flow back to the Atlantic ports. RAISING FOOD Next to facilitating the American army’s deployment the most im portant Job to which German pris oners will be turned probably will be farming—trying to raise enough food to win what obviously will be s close race with starvation in mid dle Europe next winter. There is still another job await See GERMAN Page l ‘IKE’ MEETS ‘WINNIE’, GOES TO THEATRE — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left at top), Allied Supreme commander, halts for a chat with Prime Minister Churchill in London May 16 after lunching with | the British leader at No. 10 Downing Street. The general came to London from his headquarters on the continent for a brief vacation which allowed him his first “night out” in three years. Bottom: Gen. Eisen | hower and his party enjoy a musical show in a London theatre. Left to right: Lt. John Eisenhower, the general’s son; Miss Tony Porter, not farther Identified; Gen. Eisenhower; his secretary, Lt. Kay Summersby, and Gen. Omar N. Bradley.—(AP Wirephoto by radio from London >. AT CONFERENCE: (Peace-League Plan May Be Ready Soon Big-Power Problems Piling Up In Background For Months Ahead By John M. Hightower Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.—(/P)—Completion of a new peace-league charter now appears probable in about three j weeks, but in the background of the United Nations confer ence critical big-power problems are piling up for the months ahead. The heat is being turned on tc get the Job here finished. Con ference committees, raking over proposed changes in the basic Dumbarton Oaks security plan, are eliminating many amendments. Their work to date strongly in dicates that the plan for an all powerful 11-member security coun cil and a general assembly limited to debating peace problems and advising on their solution will go through. This was borne out late last night by the action of the conference committee studying assembly duties in voting down a whole series of small nation proposals for giving the assembly some control over council actions. One result of the pressure for speed may be for the other big na tions to move ahead on settle ment of urgent issues without waiting for full agreement with Russia whenever Moscow responds slowly to Soviet delegation requests for instructions. COMING TO HEAD That situation, in fact, is already coming to a head over the United States proposal that the new char ter should allow for regional de fense systems to protect nations which the world security system may fail to protect against attack Ambassador Andrei Gromyko chief Soviet delegate, wired the See PEACE-LEAGUE Page 2 Secretary To Hitler Believes Him To Be Dead BERCHTESGADEN. May 17. — </P>—Adolf Hitler’s chief secretary, Gerhardt Herrgesell, says he is convinced the Nazi fuehrer had died in Berlin. Although he said he had not wit nessed the reported last stand of high Nazis in the Reichchancellery, Herrgessel declared in an interview yesterday that Hitler made up his mind on April 22 to remain in the German capital to the end. He quoted Hitler as saying: “I have always given orders not to retreat: now I can only follow my own command.” Herrgesell said he himself left Berlin on April 22 and flew to Berchtesgaden after Hitler had ordered all persons not considered indispensable to leave the capital. The secretary, a member of the Hitler entourage for years, assert ed that numerous persons had ap pealed to the Nazi leaders to change his mind but that Hitler had de clared: “I now make the final de cision that I stay and die.” Hitler's sweetheart, Eva Braun decided to stay with him to the last, Herrgesell said. But whether she did or not he could not say. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels went to Hitler with “a plea that if nothing else can be saved, let us fight on against Bol shevism,” the secretary said. But Hitler, listless and vague, did not seem interested. Several high NazM called with protestations of faitto and urged the fuehrer not to die. Field Mar shal Wilhelm Keitel and Martin Bormann, Hitler’s deputy, declared they would not leave. But Gen. Gustav Jodi, the man who signed surrender terms for the Germans at Reims, stated, accord ingly to Herrgesell: “I am not going to stay and get killed in this mousetrap.” At the time of his announced in tention of standing and dying, the secretary said. Hitler was certain he would meet his end within a |weefc „ _ $163,094 BONDS SOLD IN COUNTY Of This Amount $132, 850.75 Represent Sale Of E, F And G Bonds Through last Saturday a total of $163,094.25 in war bonds had been sold in Cleveland county, ac cording to George Blanton, war finance chairman, who has re ceived official^ notification of this sale from headquarters in Grens boro. This amount included $132,850. 75 in E, P and G bonds, indicating that the bulk of the sales so far has been to individuals. The coun ty has a quota of $744,000 for E, P, and G bonds in the Seventh War Loan drive and a total quota of $2,069,000. The total so far announced will be considerably swelled by the sales of the last three days as the drive proper did not get underway until Monday. Cleveland will have the biggest job in the history of the war bond issues to meet the quota in this drive. Jack Doxer is serving as campaign chairman and Worth Morris is heading the drive in the retail district. Clyde A. Short is in charge of the Chamber of Com merce phase of the drive as its president. Earth Tremor SAN FRANCISCO, May 17—(3P) —A light earth tremor shook San Francisco at 8:08 a.m. today. LEY CAPTURED: Hunt Continues For Nazi War Criminals PARIS, May 17.—(/P)—Dr. Robert Ley, one of Hitler’; most powerful lieutenants and erstwhile master of th< laboring masses in Germany, was in American hands today and the hunt continued relentlessly for the remaining mem bers of the fuehrer’s inner ring still at large. i-iey s capture Dy tne luist Air borne divison climaxed these de velopments: 1. Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Gen. Eisenhower’s deputy for the Oc cupation of Germany, announced that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was considered a prisoner of war. The so-called German government was declared officially to be only a temporary stop-gap fully control led by the Allies while it fulfills a useful purpose. 2. A dispatch from the U. S. Third army ip southern Germany said an anti • Russian resistance movement may have been nippe in the bud with the arrest ii Austria of Ernst Kaltenbrunnei right-hand man to Gestapo Chie Heinrich Himmler. 3. It was announced that th 101st Airborne division, which cap tured Ley, also had taken Frit Sauckel, Ley’s manpower coordin ator and gauleiter for Berchtesga den; and Capt. Bernard Stredek kreisleiter (area leader) fpr Ber chtesgaden. - See HUM Page 3 ^ 500 NAZI SUBS SUNK IN LONG SEA CONTEST Japan-Bound German U Boat, Carrying 3 Gen erals, Captured FOURTH SURRENDERS By Pope Haley WASHINGTON, May 17. (/P)—The battle of the Atlan tic cost Nazi Germany more than 500 U-boats sunk. And, the dread underses raiders which sent hundreds of Allied vessels to the bot tom in the dark days of 1945 and early 1943 were able— once the escort system was perfected—to bag only 11 ships out of 16,760 sailing ir convoy. The dramatic story of the lonj and successful anti-submarine cam paign was told to reporters yes terday by Admiral Jonas H. In gram, commander in chief of th< Atlantic fleet. It included disclos ures that: Only last Sunday a 1,600-ton, Japan-bound U-boat carrying three luftwaffe generals and German aviation plans sur PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 17—UP)—The fourth surren dered submarine to enter an American port was escorted into Portsmouth today and moored in the Piscataqua river alongside the U-873 and the U-805. Forty-nine members *U,jthe crew of the U-1228 ^were brought ashore and nine re mained on the craft. The ves sel was commanded by Ober lieutenant Frederick Wilhelm Marienfeld. rendered 500 miles east of Newfoundland. Two Japanese aboard committed hari-kiri shortly before the surrender to a destroyer-escort. (The captive sub is expected to reach the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard Saturday.) Two Japanese submarines wer operating in the Atlantic last sum mer. One was damaged, the othe: destroyed south of Iceland. Las June a task group off Frenci West Africa captured the Germai submarine U-505 to mark th navy’s first taking of an enem; warship in the high seas in 13 years. ROBOT BOMBING Ingram doesn’t “take back i word’’ of his warning last winte of the possibility then of Nazi robo bomb attacks on the east coasi The navy was ready and frustrat ed the German plans, he said. The admiral told his news con See 500 Page 2 President Pleased By Conference Progress WASHINGTON, May 17 —</P) The White House reported toda; that President Truman is gratifiei by “the very satisfactory progress being made at San Francisco to ward setting up an Internationa peace organization. Press Secretary Charles G. Ros told reporters that the conferenc is ahead of schedule. He said the President had talk ed with Secretary Stettinius b; telephone and concluded that ev erything was going nicely. Yanks Advance In North Area Of Mindanao By Dean Schedler MANILA, May 17.—(/P)— American 31st division dough boys drove five miles along Sayre highway in mountain ous north central Mindanao while another veteran outfit, the 24th division, was still locked in close combat today with fanatical Japanese trap ped near Davao City. The push north of captured Maramag put the 31st within eight miles of the Valencia air fields and 55 miles from the 40th Infan try division. The latter is driving south from Del Monte along grav eled Sayre highway. Between these two forces the bulk of an estimated 50,000 enemy troops on this second largest Philippine is land was preparing for a last ditch stand in wild hill country of Bukidnon province. Veterans of the 40th divis ion, who landed a week ago at Macajaiar bay on the north coast, were battling a powerful force south of Del Monte, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced in today’s communique. They advanced slightly against strong resistance. Northwest of Lavao, the 24th slowly dug enemy troops out of entrenched positions between the Talomo and Davao rivers. Deep grass permitted the Japanese to steal through Yank lines and guns often were abandoned for knives, bayonets and fists in fierce in fighting. GUNS SILENCED A marine dive bomber silenced one of several troublesome Japa nese navrfl trims ftrrnss Dovar Straits and speedy P-T boats, in a daring daylight crossing of Davac gulf, destroyed six 70-foot torpedo boats and one barge, fired four fuel and ammunition dumps and knocked out a pillbox at Pisco See YANKS Page 2 Yugoslavs Ask Right To Stay In Carinthia 1 BELGRADE, May 16—(Delayed) —(JP)—Marshall Tito (Josip Broz) ' suggested today to the U. S. gov 2 eminent that Yugaslov troops be allowed to remain in their present position in ocmpation of Austrian i Carinthia, but We placed under the * command of Field Marshal Sir t Horald Alexander. The compromise suggestion was ■ in reply to two notes handed tc Tito by U. S. Ambassador Richard ■ C. Patterson, restating the Ameri can position that boundaries should not be changed by force pending the peace conference. The United States alfo had asked with drawal of Yugoslav troops from Trieste and parts of the former Italian territory of Venezia Giulia ASKS RIGHTS The Yugoslav foreign office note r pointed out that Yugoslavia had 1 not received an answer from the ’ American or British governments . to her request April 2 for agree 1 ment to a proposal that Yugo slav troops occupy a part of Aus 5 tria. The note said Russia had a > greed to the proposal that in the absence of any reply from the . Americans and the British, the r Yugoslavs had gone ahead with . the occupation. It also expressed in strong terms Tito’s conviction that the Yugoslav army’s sacrifices and ac complishments in,the war entitlec the country to occupy the terri tory which it won from the ene my. The note declared that the Bart of Austria which was occu pied was taken from the enemy ir battle. The two American notes were understood to have the approva 5 of the British. WHAT'S DOING TODAY 8:00 p.m.—Capping exercise j for nurse’s aides. 8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. and ’ A. M. at Masonic Temple for 1 work in first degree. 8:00 p.m.—Shelby high school 5 band will give concert on court square. s 8:00 p.m.—Baseball game be - tween Shelby and Hickory in local ball park. FRIDAY 8:00 p.m.—Called meeting of Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. lot work is third degree. COL. HARRELSON FARM RESEARCH GIVEN PRAISE Col. J. W. Harrelson, Chancellor Of State Col lege, Addresses Alumni High tribute was paid by Col 1 J. W. Harrelson, chancellor ol State college, to the agricultural research work at that institution in an address to the Cleveland i county alumni of State colelge at the Shelby hotel last night. He was presented by Willis Me Murry, president of the local chap ter, who presided at the meeting Colonel Harrelson was accompa nied here by H. W. (Pop) Taylor alumni secretary of the colleee. “The function of the land grant college was the theme which the chancellor developed. He said thal under the university consolidation thus function, the economic de velopment of the state, was allot ted to State college. The carrying of the results of this agricultural research to the farming indus tries he declared to be a duty oi the State college extension depart ment. FIRST APPROPRIATION Col. Harrelson pointed out thal the first state appropriation frorr the general fund for agricultura research which used to be carriec on with funds raised by fees anc similar items from the state de partment of agriculture was mad< in 1937 when O. M. Mull, of Shel by appeared before the advisory budget commission and asked foi $5,000 for the study of apples. Nex year there has been allotted foi this research approximately $294, 000. Results of this farm research ha; been far-reaching. Col. Harrelsor declared. One county alone ha: received more than a million dol lars more for its tobacco crop thu year than it would have receivec had it not been for the study mad( by this department. Extensivi work has also been done in th« field of textiles, cotton and pea nuts, among farm crops and it engineering. Col. Harrelson is a native o See FARM Page 2 PLANECRASHES SOUTH OF CITY A cub plane, owned by the Cleve land Flying Service and piloted b; Floyd Willis, crashed into thi woods south of Shelby just off thi Grover highway yesterday after noon about 5:30 o’clock. Mr. Willis, who was alone in thi plane, received only a few scratches however, the plane was badly da maged. The plane is believed t< have gone into a spin just before i struck the tree tops. THOMAS DIXON LIBRARY: Weathers Successful In Getting Gift For G-W Daily Star Bureau Asso. Afternoon Dailies By LYNN NISBET RALEIGH, Maf 17.—The Thomas Dixon library of some fifteen hun dred volumes and nine handsome oil paintings were moved Wednes day from Raleigh to Gardner-Webb college in Cleveland codnty, becom ing permament property of the col lege to be housed in a special Dixon room in the library building. Back of that brief little news is an interesting story. More than two years ago Lee Weathers, pub lisher of the Shelby Daily Star whose printing plant is on the homesite of the Dixon family in Shelby, began negotiations to ob tain the Dixon books and pictures for the college. Former Governor Max Gardner had just “adopted” the old Boiling Springs sshool, put a good deal of his money into it, and stimulated other local support to make it a real junior college. The name was changed to Gardner - Webb College in honor of two dis tinguished Cleveland county fam ilies. Wednesday morning Senator Weathers showed up in Raleigh See WEATHERS Page S TENTH ARMY ENTERS HEART OF CAPITAL Battering At Bloody Gat es Of Shuri And Yona baru Fortresses 20,950 CASUALTIES Bv Leif Erickson GUAM, May 17.—(/F)—A total of 46,505 Japanese have been killed on Okinawa by Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.’s, Tenth Army which today pierced the heart of Naha and was fighting on the blood-soaked approaches to Shuri and Yonabaru. Naha, Shuri and Yonabaru are strongpoints of the four-mile "lit tle Siegfried line” across southern Okinawa. American casualties through Monday were 20,950; killed — 2,771 soldiers; 1,010 Marines— total 3,781. Wounded—11,675 soldiers; 5,329 Marines—total, 17,004. Missing—129 soldiers; 36 Marines—total, 165. The Yanks captured 1,038 Nipponese. For the 45 days of savage bat tling U. S. forces have lost an average of 84 men killed daily while Japanese have lost an aver age of 1,011 daily—a ratio of one American to 12 Japanese. An estimated 36,000 Japanese remain on the island. Patrols of Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr.’s, Sixth Marine di vision crossed the muddy Asatc estuary and entered the main part of Naha, rubble-strewn Okinawa capital on the west coast. 800-YARD DRIVE Across the island, a 96th Infan try division tank platoon led by 1st Lt. Elon F. Andrews, Wilming ton, N. C„ rolled around the left nose of recently captured Conical hill and drove 800 yards south to within a couple hundred yards of Yonabaru, eastern anchor of the enemy defense line. Meanwhile, elements of three di See TENTH Page 2 HUNAN DEFEAT? HURT MORALE Americans Find Evidence That Japs Lost Heart After Reverses CHUNGKING, May 17. —UP)— Chinese combat command head quarters said today an American observer had found “increasing evi dence that enemy morale has suf fered heavily from unexpected re verses” in Hunan province. The American's report praised the morale and fighting spirit of , the Chinese who turned back the Japanese drive toward the Ameri ( can air base at Chihkiang. It said the aggressive Chinese defensive ■ and counteroffensive tactics in Hunan surprised the Japanese and provided a psychological as well as physical factor in breaking down the enemy advance. Fourteenth Air force fighters and bombers continued their attacks yesterday over a wide area on Jap anese supplies, troops and com munications. Five enemy vessels were destroy ’ ed and five others were damaged in : attacks on river shipping on the i Yangtze and in the Siang corri ■ dor. Censorship today permitted the 1 disclosure that the new Chinese , Sixth Army, which played an im portant part in the Burma cam i paign to open the India-China sup , ply road, has been in China since last January.
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